Two- and three-dimensional large-eddy simulations of a transitional separation bubble

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2932-2940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Wilson ◽  
Laura L. Pauley
Author(s):  
Hayder Schneider ◽  
Dominic von Terzi ◽  
Hans-Jo¨rg Bauer ◽  
Wolfgang Rodi

Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) calculations and Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of the flow in two asymmetric three-dimensional diffusers were performed. The numerical setup was chosen to be in compliance with previous experiments. The aim of the present study is to find the least expensive method to compute reliably and accurately the impact of geometric sensitivity on the flow. RANS calculations fail to predict both the extent and location of the three-dimensional separation bubble. In contrast, LES is able to determine the amount of reverse flow and the pressure coefficient within the accuracy of experimental data.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ittetsu Kaneda ◽  
Satoshi Sekimoto ◽  
Taku Nonomura ◽  
Kengo Asada ◽  
Akira Oyama ◽  
...  

We conducted large eddy simulations of the control of separated flow over an airfoil using body forces and discuss the role of a three-dimensional vortex structure in separation control. Two types of cases are examined: (1) the body force is distributed in a spanwise uniform layout and (2) the body force is distributed in a spanwise intermittent layout, with three-dimensional vortices being expected to be generated in the latter cases. The flow fields in the latter cases have a shorter separation bubble than those in the former cases although the total momentum of the body force in the latter cases is the same as or half of the former cases. In the flow fields of the latter type, the three-dimensional vortices, which are not observed in the former cases, are generated by the body force downstream of the body force distributed. Thus, three-dimensional vortices are considered to be effective in controlling the separated flow.


2010 ◽  
Vol 652 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. FINNIGAN

New large-eddy simulations of flow over a flexible plant canopy by Dupont et al. (J. Fluid Mech., 2010, this issue, vol. 652, pp. 5–44) have produced apparently paradoxical results. Work over the last three decades had suggested that turbulent eddies could ‘lock onto’ to the waving frequency of uniform cereal canopies. Their new simulations contradict this view, although a resolution may lie in the essentially three-dimensional nature of the instability process that generates the dominant eddies above plant canopies.


Author(s):  
Felipe Nornberg Schuch ◽  
Jorge Silvestrini ◽  
Eckart Meiburg ◽  
Sylvain Laizet

Author(s):  
Christian Helcig ◽  
Stefan aus der Wiesche ◽  
Stephan Uhkoetter

The aim of this study is to examine the influence of passive jets interacting with the separation region of the flow around a blunt plate. Experimental and numerical analysis are used to measure the velocity within the separation and reattachment region of the blunt plate with different passive jet configurations. A blunt plate was placed in a low speed wind tunnel to conduct Laser-Doppler anemometry (LDA) measurements at Re = 2.06 × 104. For the numerical procedure a dynamical sub-grid model for Large Eddy Simulations (LES) was used. For all configurations the flow characteristics such as the reattachment length were determined to characterize the boundary layer. The passive jets showed a strong influence by interacting with the boundary layer of the blunt plate.


2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. A. Younis ◽  
A. Abrishamchi

The paper reports on the prediction of the turbulent flow field around a three-dimensional, surface mounted, square-sectioned cylinder at Reynolds numbers in the range 104–105. The effects of turbulence are accounted for in two different ways: by performing large-eddy simulations (LES) with a Smagorinsky model for the subgrid-scale motions and by solving the unsteady form of the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (URANS) together with a turbulence model to determine the resulting Reynolds stresses. The turbulence model used is a two-equation, eddy-viscosity closure that incorporates a term designed to account for the interactions between the organized mean-flow periodicity and the random turbulent motions. Comparisons with experimental data show that the two approaches yield results that are generally comparable and in good accord with the experimental data. The main conclusion of this work is that the URANS approach, which is considerably less demanding in terms of computer resources than LES, can reliably be used for the prediction of unsteady separated flows provided that the effects of organized mean-flow unsteadiness on the turbulence are properly accounted for in the turbulence model.


Author(s):  
Adèle Poubeau ◽  
Roberto Paoli ◽  
Daniel Cariolle

This paper focuses on two decisive steps towards Large Eddy Simulation of a solid rocket booster jet. First, three-dimensional Large Eddy Simulations of a non-reactive booster jet including the nozzle were obtained at flight conditions of 20 km of altitude. A particularly long computational domain (400 nozzle exit diameters in the jet axial direction) was simulated, thanks to an innovative local time-stepping method via coupling multi instances of a fluid solver. The dynamics of the jet is analysed and comparison of the results with previous knowledge validates the simulations and confirms that this computational setup can be applied for Large Eddy Simulations of a reactive booster jet. The second part of this paper details the implementation of a simple method to study the hot plume chemistry. Despite its limitations, it is accurate enough to observe the various steps of the chemical mechanism and assess the effect of uncertainties of the rate parameters on chlorine reactions. It was also used to reduce the set of chemical reactions into a short scheme involving a minimum of species and having a limited impact on the physical time step of the Large Eddy Simulations.


2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuelin Tang ◽  
Xiang Ding ◽  
Zhicong Chen

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